UCONNIC Spring Concert Brings Talent to Stage

                                                 UCONNIC STUDENT PERFORMERS OPEN FOR A EUPHORIC NIGHT

By Ama­ree Love
Oct 22. 2022
Indi­go Baby Blog

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut fans were wait­ing patient­ly in Gam­pel Pavil­ion for per­for­mances from artists Young M.A, and Dominic Fike, and two stu­dent per­form­ers, Mon­tez and Kaprisun. 

The doors opened at 6:00 p.m. for stu­dents to enter and grab their place on the floor. Many stood at the front to be front and cen­ter to the per­form­ers. Those sit­ting at the low­er sec­tion of the sta­di­um as well as high above came around 7:30 p.m. before the show started.

The first per­former goes by Mon­tez but is actu­al­ly named Trin­i­ty Hol­lis. The sopho­more is a Music major who enjoys writ­ing her own songs and has her own cro­chet­ing busi­ness that she works on dur­ing her free time.

She was the first stu­dent per­former to open for Young M.A and Dominic Fike. Mon­tez did songs from her lat­est EP which is called Phas­es. A pop­u­lar song many stu­dents knew due to see­ing her in a youtube video a Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut stu­dent post­ed was called, “Spe­cial”. 

DJ Big­gman, who hap­pens to be Hol­lis’ father, had her set han­dled and was hyp­ing the crowd up very well dur­ing her per­for­mance as well as the per­former. She cre­at­ed a catch­phrase, “ Mon­tez chill­in’ with UCONNIC” on the spot to calm her nerves. The crowd loved her and by the end of her fifth song, she had a quick word to say to the audi­ence and stat­ed this was her first stage per­for­mance and she was thank­ing the crowd for help­ing her. 

After Mon­tez went, Kaprisun took the stage and dom­i­nat­ed it with his own songs. He per­formed at Huskies at the begin­ning of the semes­ter and had a great per­for­mance. Kaprisun enter­tained the audi­ence and even took it upon him­self to stage dive into the crowd and surf the crowd for a short while.

Young M.A. entered the stage with a few friends and had the crowd cheer­ing excit­ed­ly. She called stu­dents up to dance to her songs and encour­aged flash­lights to light up the entire Gam­pel Pavil­ion. There were thou­sands of lights on cen­ter stage in sync with the songs play­ing. A fan favorite named “OOOUUU”  start­ed play­ing, hav­ing every­one jump­ing up and down excit­ed to hear the rap famous lyrics.

After Young M.A. per­formed, a spe­cial per­former from a famous tele­vi­sion show, Eupho­ria, Dominic Fike, per­formed songs named Dou­ble Neg­a­tive, Chick­en Ten­ders, and more hav­ing the crowd scream his name. He signed his hat and sweater and threw them into the crowd while play­ing his elec­tric gui­tar effortlessly.